Newport

Newport has three public schools serving grades PK–12: Claiborne Pell Elementary (PK–4), Frank E. Thompson Middle (5–8), and Rogers High School (9–12). The schools’ supplied 2025–26 proficiency results are all below state figures, though Rogers is close to or slightly above Newport district results on its listed tests. The most important shared concern is the state gap: Thompson is 20.4–22.6 percentage points (pp) below the state in its listed subjects, while the other schools also fall short in every supplied subject.

Pell is the local bright spot on the two schools’ comparable RICAS summaries, with 19.1% proficiency in ELA and 16.7% in math—8.1 pp and 7.4 pp above Thompson, respectively. Pell also exceeds district results by 5.6 pp in ELA and 5.1 pp in math, although it remains 14.0 pp and 15.2 pp below the state. Thompson is below district results in ELA, math, and science; its ELA and math rates are 11.0% and 9.3%. Rogers stands out in science at 20.0%, compared with Thompson’s 10.7%, and is 6.1 pp above the district. The schools serve different grades and use different assessments, so not all school-to-school results are directly comparable.

Recent changes are mixed rather than consistently upward: Pell’s ELA and math results fell 3.3 pp and 6.2 pp, while Thompson improved 1.0 pp and 0.8 pp; at Rogers, SAT ELA fell 10.2 pp, but PSAT10 math rose 3.7 pp. SchoolDigger’s latest statewide percentiles are 13th for Pell, 12th for Thompson, and 34th for Rogers; each is below its first listed percentile. Student–teacher ratios are similar—10.9 at Pell and 10.3 at both other schools—while reported free/reduced-lunch rates range from 69.28% at Rogers to 77.76% at Thompson. Rogers’ graduation rate is 76.4%, above the district’s 73.7% but below the state’s 85.5%.